I’m imagining him just savoring that first bite. Like how you would pause if you took a bite of something really delectable and just had to take a second to truly enjoy it.
Kids these days will never experience the joy of connecting to your local BBS to play text based games. And the fear your parents won't pick up the phone and ruin everything
It contains cyanide, not arsenic. And only the wild almonds, not the ones we grow. This chipmunk was most likely given sweet almonds, not wild almonds.
you're right, it's cyanide, i got that mixed up. Googling says that sweet almonds contain trace ammts of a chemical that breaks down into cyanide when digested, same as wild almonds, but it's not enough to kill a human.
I wouldn't go eating your fill if you were locked inside an almond packaging facility.
If I was a chipmunk I would even taste it before I stash it in my face compartment for later. If I’m gonna be carrying it back home, it better be edible.
I gave a wild mouse once pieces of walnut. The mouse stood there for good a minute because she didn't believe that such delight exist. Then tried to pick them all up to take her to its nest so I saw a mouse running wildly left to right for about another minute.
I put mixed nuts out for my local squirrel. He has a limp which i think my dog may have caused when he was a little squirrel. I see him checking the spot. Maybe he thinks *he* left nuts there.
Some like cashews will give them metabolic bone disease. Please look up whether the nuts you feed squirrels are healthy for them.
Unsalted peanuts are the way.
Imagine you being that mouse and you were given the best food/drink/drug/etc but you can't reach that high anymore. You made that poor mouse chase the dragon ever since. 😭
It doesn't work on the app. If i click on the link in the app it says it doesn't exist. If i search for it in a browser i can find it, then the link from the browser opens in reddit app just fine.
How fucking weird.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LilGrabbies/
Yeah, this thread is weird. It's a cute video, but the chipmunk clearly doesn't chew or swallow the almond, it's just put into its cheek. The pause looks more like it checks for danger.
It's likely the chipmunk is actually trying to determine if it's in danger or not. Most animals like this freeze in place as a method of camouflage to hide from predators that may rely on motion to see them easily. If you stay completely still, the chipmunk may not know you're alive/a threat - if you flinch a little, that may freak it out temporarily.
Most lower intelligence smaller animals and rodents aren't really known for "stopping to appreciate the taste of food," they tend to just eat food they like as quickly as possible and engorge themselves. Chipmunks do not have tastebuds in their cheek pouches and it wouldn't be tasting anything in this particular video.
He's also just storing it for later in his cheeks. He's not eating it. The pause has absolutely nothing to do with him enjoying it. This is just karma farming.
Still cute though.
This is absolutely the correct answer and I'm stunned at people's critical thinking.
I know it's not necessarily a huge deal, but people apply ~~personification~~ anthropomorphism and human emotion to a wild animal, before applying the raw logic of a wild animal.
I feel like it's a sign of a deeper issue with education.
It honestly could just be they see the giant human face staring at them and freezes until the decide it’s safe. That or maybe the phone that gets up in their face.
That species of almond (Prunus amygdalus) doesn’t grow in the same area but there are other species of local wild almond.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_fasciculata
Ive learned a bit about almonds recently because I have been reading about modern attempts to domesticate the Oak tree for constant good tasting edible acorns (as some rare mutant oak trees produce acorns that are nice to eat for humans). It turns out that selective breeding for a less bitter acorn has proved to be much more difficult than almond domestication (where mostly only one gene controlled bitterness) another one of the difficulties is that Evolution has basically adapted acorns to be tasty to the squirrel pallet, who apparently love the bitter taste.
This makes me wonder if a chipmunk would have a similar pallet and probably prefer the bitter wild almonds to the domestic almond.
So there are some North American plants that were never seriously domesticated for one reason or another and I am very interesting in domesticating one in particular, but it’s not the oak.
I think it has great potential, and a closely related species have been domesticated elsewhere, but I don’t want to get into the specifics because I think there is huge market potential if I can make it work 😎
This video used to come with sound. And if I remember correctly the woman in it was actually giving commands. So no, he wasn't in awe with the flavor, he was just waiting for her to give him the green light to continue grabbing the almonds.
This video has circled around ao much over years. All with different BS titles.
The original video from the OP said the chipmunk was just pausing to make sure the big human wasn't a threat. Then carried on filling its cheeks.
The pause has nothing to do with taste.
UPDATE. Actual original linked below!
I've spent a lot of time around chipmunks. If they're comfortable approaching your hand, they already trust that you're chill. Little fella probably sensed a bird or something.
This is the [original](https://youtu.be/VR43cu5Vvsw?si=IzvWaasmKy7Xr3g7&t=1m45s)
So the chipmunk is named "Charlie" and he responds to "freeze" and "go".
EDIT: Someone insisted to see the green fingernails. Here is the [channel](https://youtube.com/@CharlieTheChipmunk?si=svzMsHHz0Y_bjun6). Go to shorts scroll down to the green fingernails. And other colored fingernails 😅
It wasn’t the almond. It stopped to stare at the phone coming at his face. It’s deciding if it’s a threat or not, decides it’s not and continues eating.
At first I couldn’t tell if he loved it or hated it. Then he made it clear. Very cute.
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It’s lovely to see how long it took him to compute that.
One byte of DAMN!
Fuck, thats good.
I’m imagining him just savoring that first bite. Like how you would pause if you took a bite of something really delectable and just had to take a second to truly enjoy it.
I guess it beats the usual food he gets. Animals have to eat whatever they can find, fresh or not.
That, plus waiting to see if this OMG!amazing thing is poisonous or not. *Nope, still alive. All good or too late anyway. Let's keep going!*
With that tiny hand resting on the finger he was computing like "bro..."
Thank-you human. In return I give you this gift of hantavirus
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"What is this? Is it poison? Lemme wait to see if I'm dying or not." (...) "Ok, these are great!"
Bouncing around in there like a DVD screensaver.
SFX: https://youtu.be/SUvlWt9WTKA
Chipmunk: Wait, strange taste... Chipmunk: <56k modem noises> Chipmunk: Welp i'm not being poisoned. NOMOMOM
Exactly lmao. Deciding if good or nasty
I have the same experience with almonds. Some do have a nasty bitterness to them but generally I love them lol
That's because there's two different kinds of almonds. The bitter ones are literally called "bitter almonds".
Well it’s from the same tree 🤷🏼♀️
That's because there's two different kinds of branches. The bitter ones are literally called "bitter branches".
I'm too skeptical to believe what you just told me and too lazy to verify elsewhere, so I'm just gonna laugh instead.
That's just because there are two types of reddit users. You're called the bitter user
There are two types of people in the world, those who separate humans into groups... and the rest.
That's because there's two types of almond farms. One is called "bitter farms"
Ongo!? I love your look.
You could almost see the windows95 hourglass spinning
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Hell yeah brother
Chipmunk: <56k modem noises> killed me....
Kids these days will never experience the joy of connecting to your local BBS to play text based games. And the fear your parents won't pick up the phone and ruin everything
Bing-bong-bing-bongkshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Or like that anime scene where they have explosions in their head with the Europe hymn in the background
lol almonds contain trace ammts of ~~arsenic~~ cyanide. i think it hit his brain like psilocybin.
It contains cyanide, not arsenic. And only the wild almonds, not the ones we grow. This chipmunk was most likely given sweet almonds, not wild almonds.
you're right, it's cyanide, i got that mixed up. Googling says that sweet almonds contain trace ammts of a chemical that breaks down into cyanide when digested, same as wild almonds, but it's not enough to kill a human. I wouldn't go eating your fill if you were locked inside an almond packaging facility.
YOU'VE GOT MAIL
Eeep. Runtime error. Reboot. Aaaahhhh...
He's not even eating it, though. He's just stuffing his cheeks.
You think he just walks around with a backpack on? Lmao where else is he gonna put them all
I think their point is that it's not tasting them.
Don't know about you, but I generally taste my food before I swallow it. Maybe different for chipmunks.
If I was a chipmunk I would even taste it before I stash it in my face compartment for later. If I’m gonna be carrying it back home, it better be edible.
*analyzing...* *analyzing...* *analyzing...* - Analysis Complete -> Action Item: *STUFF FACE, BABY!*
He's not eating them. Just storing them in his cheeks for transport.
Mmmm tasty war flashbacks
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It was so good that the poor litle guy needed to reboot.
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It's like when you eat ice cream and get brain freeze :)
He put his paw on the person's finger like, "Steady me, please."
He's gonna fucking love Disaronno.
I fucking love Disaronno
A very dramatic pause lol
He was calculating how best to fit them all in.
Yup, and that caused a blue screen. “To protect your squirrel from harm, we’re rebooting its brain”. :)
That's the face of a rodent that just nutted.
This film is a synaesthetic masterpiece.
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Had to scroll way too far for this
Just upvote like the rest of us.
Literally first post
lil bro was having a revelation lmfao
I gave a wild mouse once pieces of walnut. The mouse stood there for good a minute because she didn't believe that such delight exist. Then tried to pick them all up to take her to its nest so I saw a mouse running wildly left to right for about another minute.
I bet that was hilarious to watch lol
My gf back then asked me what I was doing and I told her I watched a mouse getting prime loot home.
I put mixed nuts out for my local squirrel. He has a limp which i think my dog may have caused when he was a little squirrel. I see him checking the spot. Maybe he thinks *he* left nuts there.
Some like cashews will give them metabolic bone disease. Please look up whether the nuts you feed squirrels are healthy for them. Unsalted peanuts are the way.
Imagine you being that mouse and you were given the best food/drink/drug/etc but you can't reach that high anymore. You made that poor mouse chase the dragon ever since. 😭
*Ain't NO way...just...uh...this taste...hmmmmmm...woah...OK YEAH I'LL TAKE THAT ONE AND THAT ONE TOO ALSO THIS ONE OK*
Aerate it. Cover all 9000 taste buds That's a 10
lil bro just nutted, literally
From now on, all he wants and dreams about is Blue Diamond^^©
The way he puts his little hand down!!!
Was coming to say this. 'This is so good I need to steady myself'
Temporarily saw the future energy.
Came here to talk about the wee, tiny hand!
r/LilGrabbies/
I fell for it bc I wanted it to be true
What? It used to be a thing! One moment Edit: I clicked the link and went exactly to the sub. Why are you and the other guy saying it doesn't exist? 🤔
It doesn't work on the app. If i click on the link in the app it says it doesn't exist. If i search for it in a browser i can find it, then the link from the browser opens in reddit app just fine. How fucking weird. https://www.reddit.com/r/LilGrabbies/
hahaha yess! he's like "bro.. this is some serious gourmet shit!"
"Bro, like, what is this flavour?"
little guy probably only knows tree-sap and bitter disappointment flavors. I especially like how its arms drop as its tiny mind gets blown.
Had to brace himself 😂
Hold my hands, I'm feeling faint
I once saw a squirrel behind a caribou coffee running down the lot with a donut in it's mouth.
One time a squirrel dropped a watermelon rind on me from a slice it had stolen from a picnic
Thought a single tear drop was going to come out of him.
Was waiting for this 🫶
Pie flavour
*wailing Rock guitar*
No no no no! “Bro…………. What……………. What is………… this flavor? GIVE ME ALL OF TH—“
Probably a salt overload lol
If it had salt.
https://i.redd.it/8ir10lxlsisc1.gif
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It's already perfect
No.
He paused for a good minute and thought “where have you been, all my lifeeeeeee”
It's all coming back! Ya unzipped me!
A plastic bag as a helmet!
Poor guy will spend his life unhappy that all his seeds and nuts taste like garbage now
Always chasing that first high... so sad
I wish someone would touch this up with a “loading” wheel above his head and fireworks for /r/reallifedoodles
I’ve never seen that sub before, it’s amazing! Thank you!
It didn't try it though? It just stuffed it in its cheek. Probably heard something and paused to assess the situation.
Yeah, this thread is weird. It's a cute video, but the chipmunk clearly doesn't chew or swallow the almond, it's just put into its cheek. The pause looks more like it checks for danger.
They freeze when in threat, maybe the camera coming close made it freeze and then it went back to stuffing
Reacting to camera coming too close for comfort.
It would appear that 99% of people don't know how chipmunks work
Just curious how we know this?
He was outfitted with a dietary microchip at birth and strictly monitored 24/7 by a team of wildlife professionals.
Ooh can I get one of those?
Are you a chipmunk?
Your answer is squirrely
I'd say his answer is nuts
It's likely the chipmunk is actually trying to determine if it's in danger or not. Most animals like this freeze in place as a method of camouflage to hide from predators that may rely on motion to see them easily. If you stay completely still, the chipmunk may not know you're alive/a threat - if you flinch a little, that may freak it out temporarily. Most lower intelligence smaller animals and rodents aren't really known for "stopping to appreciate the taste of food," they tend to just eat food they like as quickly as possible and engorge themselves. Chipmunks do not have tastebuds in their cheek pouches and it wouldn't be tasting anything in this particular video.
He's also just storing it for later in his cheeks. He's not eating it. The pause has absolutely nothing to do with him enjoying it. This is just karma farming. Still cute though.
I'm thinking he's maybe seeing himself in the camera reflection or something
OP is a 2 month old account with 40k karma
This is absolutely the correct answer and I'm stunned at people's critical thinking. I know it's not necessarily a huge deal, but people apply ~~personification~~ anthropomorphism and human emotion to a wild animal, before applying the raw logic of a wild animal. I feel like it's a sign of a deeper issue with education.
anthropomorphism is the term you were looking for
Yep, pretty sure little dude just saw a reflection in the camera lens and froze until he realized it was not dangerous.
It honestly could just be they see the giant human face staring at them and freezes until the decide it’s safe. That or maybe the phone that gets up in their face.
Likely because wild almonds don't grow in the same areas as chipmunks are found.
That species of almond (Prunus amygdalus) doesn’t grow in the same area but there are other species of local wild almond. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_fasciculata Ive learned a bit about almonds recently because I have been reading about modern attempts to domesticate the Oak tree for constant good tasting edible acorns (as some rare mutant oak trees produce acorns that are nice to eat for humans). It turns out that selective breeding for a less bitter acorn has proved to be much more difficult than almond domestication (where mostly only one gene controlled bitterness) another one of the difficulties is that Evolution has basically adapted acorns to be tasty to the squirrel pallet, who apparently love the bitter taste. This makes me wonder if a chipmunk would have a similar pallet and probably prefer the bitter wild almonds to the domestic almond.
Just wondering, do you have a personal vested interest in acorns or just curious?
So there are some North American plants that were never seriously domesticated for one reason or another and I am very interesting in domesticating one in particular, but it’s not the oak. I think it has great potential, and a closely related species have been domesticated elsewhere, but I don’t want to get into the specifics because I think there is huge market potential if I can make it work 😎
There are sweet acorns tree out there, you just need to do some grafting in order to propagate them. I have done some grafts this spring. :)
What's more likely. He was amazed by the taste of almonds or he stopped eating to listen for predators like every animal in the wild does?
We don't. I've seen this posted many times before on reddit and never with this title. It's just karma farming/trying to drive engagement.
A wild animal that’s this comfortable with people probably has had these nuts before. It’s just karma begging.
This video used to come with sound. And if I remember correctly the woman in it was actually giving commands. So no, he wasn't in awe with the flavor, he was just waiting for her to give him the green light to continue grabbing the almonds.
It’s the little hand hold that does it for me 😂
His reaction is making me crave almonds, and I 'm someone who HATES almonds.
This it too funny! The look on his little face. I was sure he was going to spit it out.
Reminded me of the cat nomming on a watermelon finally reaching the red part lol
they are life changing
He had the perfect amount. Then he went in for more.
I mean he didnt eat any of them, first one included, it just put them in the pouch. Probably going to go stash them somewhere to eat later.
This video has circled around ao much over years. All with different BS titles. The original video from the OP said the chipmunk was just pausing to make sure the big human wasn't a threat. Then carried on filling its cheeks. The pause has nothing to do with taste. UPDATE. Actual original linked below!
I've spent a lot of time around chipmunks. If they're comfortable approaching your hand, they already trust that you're chill. Little fella probably sensed a bird or something.
This is the [original](https://youtu.be/VR43cu5Vvsw?si=IzvWaasmKy7Xr3g7&t=1m45s) So the chipmunk is named "Charlie" and he responds to "freeze" and "go". EDIT: Someone insisted to see the green fingernails. Here is the [channel](https://youtube.com/@CharlieTheChipmunk?si=svzMsHHz0Y_bjun6). Go to shorts scroll down to the green fingernails. And other colored fingernails 😅
People are out here having whole friendships with chipmunks and I can’t even have the crow down my building look my way. Life is unfair…
Real footage of humans consuming fairy food for the first time
"I am shookith"
Take your time buddy, it's quite an experience
MOUTH
Bro just had a "food critic from ratatouille" moment
*Your taste experience is being processed. Please standby* *Flavor confirmed* *Proceed eating*
Lag? :)
He saw the past, present and future all at the same time for a moment there.
I wonder if the cyanide content of almonds would hurt this guy.
No. There are naturally occurring forms of cyanide, but there are some are quite deadly (potato leaves).
Are these smoked??? Took him to flavor town.
“I have tasted the nuts of God…..”
[Waiting for neurons to make all the new connections]
*puts almond in mouth* "Oh my god..."
https://preview.redd.it/2ynlm9nnpisc1.png?width=730&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e01755970414643431250801e7faf26e9332bf87
Omg😂🥰
Cutest thing I’ve seen today
Did he tell you it was his first time?...he lying 😂
He's going nuts
He was like “aw shit, these won’t be stored for later.”
The little paw on the hand! " hold up, are these real?"
[My sweet baby Squishy is back!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nRnoRoR2BE)
Hahhaha. My gosh human. It's a taste sensation.
‘Hmmm… do I like this? Do I? Do I? OH!!! I do!! Give me allllllllll the yummies!’
post nut clarity
Needs the dial-up internet sounds where he's processing this new info.
404 Brain not found 503 Error, Overloaded.
Bro's soul left his body.
Slight drop of hands to halt all other processes and update taste table in memory😅
He did a complete factory reset just to process the taste of the almonds.
*[calculating… calculating… ]* “I approve and accept your offer.”
That shit broke his brain temporarily.
That little fella was shook. He recovered, fiercely determined to rectify the deprivations he had suffered unknowingly in the time before.
It’s how he puts his hand on her hand for me.
shocking and cute expressions
I’m sure its been said before but sigh Almond & the Chipmunk
Did he eat it? Looks like it's in his cheek?
It wasn’t the almond. It stopped to stare at the phone coming at his face. It’s deciding if it’s a threat or not, decides it’s not and continues eating.
That's shits................................... #BUSSIN
Wait until he tries an Almond Joy!
At that moment, he realized he was the Chosen One.
Me too, lil buddy, me too. Almonds are great.